Who is this for: All staff and volunteers (anyone who interacts with another staff member, patient, visitor or member of the public)
Duration: approximately 30 minutes
Course contact: Samantha Dalwood, Disability Advisor
Method: eLearning
About this course:
Kia ora! The overall aim of this course is to gain an understanding of the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower and how to respond to people wearing it.
By the end of this course:
- You and your colleagues will be able to identify the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower
- You will have gained an understanding of what a non-visible disability is
- You will have become confident to approach and support people who are wearing a Sunflower.
Success is when you have watched all three training videos and can identify the sunflower products, understand what they represent and report to be confident enough to approach someone at work wearing a sunflower product and offer help.
- Editing Trainer: Samantha Dalwood
- Editing Trainer: Adele Thomas
Intended audience: Nursing Workforce
Prerequisites: none
Duration: 4 hours
Method: eLearning
About this course:
Kia ora! This course is about the Treaty of Waitangi and Aotearoa History, Cultural Safety, Bias in Healthcare, Privilege and White Fragility.
It includes resources to reflect on practice and support articulating nursing competence.
- Course contact: Sarah Tailby
- Course contact: Owena Zanders
Learn about supporting transgender people in Aotearoa New Zealand.
This free course is offered by Gender Minorities Aotearoa.
This course links to https://genderminorities.com/2021/05/11/supporting-transgender-people-online-course/ and is not tracked in Ko Awatea LEARN.
Intended audience: any staff working at Waitematā DHB
Prerequisites: none
Duration: 4 hours
Method: face-to-face learning
About this course:
Course content -
- Overview of the Deaf community.
- Effective communication strategies.
- Deaf culture and Deaf history.
- What makes a Deaf friendly environment.
- Making information accessible for Deaf people.
- New Zealand Sign Language interpreters: how to book and work with them.
- Introduction to New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) - including health language pain, nurses, appointment, sick, medicine, pills, etc.
- Course contact: Samantha Dalwood
- Course contact: Learning and Development WDHB
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eCALD® Services provide a suite of online and face-to-face “Courses for working with CALD patients” to enhance cultural awareness, knowledge and skills for health practitioners working with Asian, migrant and refugee clients from diverse cultural backgrounds. The courses provide practitioners with insights and understandings of how people from cultural backgrounds different from their own respond to health and illness and to health care services; as well as the skills to care for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) clients with more confidence.
- Editing Trainer: Sue Lim
